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Volunteer Services

If you desire to make a difference, touch a life, learn while helping others, or just to have fun, UNC Medical Center is the perfect place to volunteer your time and talents. Our mission is to assist the hospital in its goals to provide comprehensive health care to the communities we serve and give a meaningful outlet for the human need to be of service to others.

Making a Difference

UNC Medical Center volunteers play an integral role in delivering first-class health care to the entire state of North Carolina. It is the everlasting dedication from our volunteers that allows us to provide great health care making an invaluable difference to our patients, families and staff.

Volunteer Group Opportunities

We welcome groups to volunteer their time by assisting our patients and staff in our Pediatric Play Atrium. Group leaders are encouraged to apply. Please be sure your group is able to comply with all requirements prior to completing the application.

Shadowing

Volunteer Services does not arrange any shadowing. Interested parties must contact hospital departments individually to set up shadow experiences. Once a department agrees to work with a shadow visitor, the visitor must fill out a confidentiality form and read the guidelines for shadowing.

Volunteer at UNC Health Care Hillsborough Campus

Volunteer at the new UNC Health Care facility at Hillsborough starting in July. The hospital campus is an anchor for Waterstone, a 300-plus acre mixed-use development on the south side of Hillsborough at the I-40 interchange. Volunteer positions are available in the Emergency Department and Customer Service.

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Current Volunteers:Forgot to Submit Your Hours? Off-site Volunteer?

In case you forgot to log your volunteer hours in at the Volunteer Services kiosk or you volunteer off-site, you may submit hours for the adult or student volunteer programs online.

Apply Today

Join our team and become a part of the UNC Medical Center community by completing our applications for adult, college or high school volunteer programs.

Volunteer Stories

Many children dream of becoming superheroes. Thanks to California-based nonprofit Capes4Heroes and local collaborators in Chapel Hill, more than 80 pediatric patients at N.C. Children’s Hospital were able to live that dream.

This year a team of UNC Medical Center personnel conducted Trauma Day, previously called ED Day, to benefit area high school students who have been selected as UNC Medical Center volunteers. The interdisciplinary group put together a large-scale simulation that educated students while enhancing high-tech, inter-professional simulations at UNC Medical Center.